Whiplash Injuries Awarded $1.3 Million in Car Accident Claim

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Mr Martin, sustained whiplash injuries to his neck and back in a rear end car accident on the Peak Downs Highway, near Claremont in July 2011. He brought a motor accident claim for damages, seeking compensation for his accident injuries.

Rear end collision causes whiplash injuries

The car accident occurred when Mr Martin’s Landrover was hit from behind at speed by a following motor vehicle, shunting the Landrover into the car in front. Mr Martin sustained significant jarring of his body upon impact, suffering whiplash injuries. That Mr Martin had suffered whiplash injuries in the accident was not in dispute. However, the extent of his injuries, and their impact on his pre-injury lifestyle and employment was very much in dispute.

Mr Martin’s case went to trial before Justice McMeekin in the Supreme Court, John Alfred Martin v Andrews & AAI Ltd [2016] QSC 20. The CTP insurer of the car that rear-ended Martin’s vehicle, AAI Ltd (Suncorp Insurance), admitted liability for the accident. The only issue in dispute at trial was how much Mr Martin should receive in injury compensation.Continue reading→

Calculating Loss of Income in Personal Injury Claims

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No Win No Fee Personal Injury Lawyers Gold Coast & Brisbane Explain How Loss of Income is Calculated in Personal Injury Claims.

Personal Injury Lawyers Gold Coast & Brisbane Explain How Economic Loss is Calculated in Personal Injury Claims. No Win No Fee Lawyers Gold Coast & Brisbane.

We have already discussed what compensation entitlements there are in a personal injury claim in our post entitled, “How Much Compensation Will I Receive for My Personal Injury Claim?”. One of the areas of compensation, or what are termed “Heads of Damage”, in personal injury claims is economic loss. This is a claim for the loss of income that a person suffers because of their injury.  The claim for economic loss includes both past and future income lost because of injury.

In the majority of personal injury claims, the claim for economic loss provides the largest amount of compensation in a personal injury claim. This is because it is a very important element of any personal injury claim. If injury impedes a person’s ability to earn an income, then this will seriously compromise their ability to support themselves, and in many cases, their families, into the future.

No Win No Fee Personal Injury Lawyers Explain How Economic Loss is Calculated in a Personal Injury Claim

How economic loss is calculated is basically the same for all personal injury claims in Queensland, whether your injury is from a car accident, workplace accident, medical malpractice, or generally because of the negligence or wrongful actions of another.Continue reading→

Slip & Fall at Bowling Alley Gives $157K Damages

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I was recently having a game of bowls at a popular ten pin bowling establishment with my young nieces when I inadvertently stepped over the fowl line onto the very slippery alley surface, slipping & falling to the amusement of my competitors! And to add insult to injury, I managed to hit nothing at all!

Fortunately, although a bit sore, I didn’t suffer any serious injuries, but had I done so, then the bowling alley would have been liable for my injuries & any loss and damage I sustained as a result.

Slip & Fall the result of Negligence & Bowling Alley Liable to Pay Injury Compensation

This is because the bowling alley was negligent, and placed me at risk of injury. Why is this ? Firstly, the bowling alley had no clear marking of the fowl line indicating where the slippery alley surface began. There was also no signage warning of the danger whatsoever. There was no warning not to step over the fowl line as it was excessively slippery and could cause injury and neither was there any verbal warning of this when purchasing our game of bowls. The lighting in the area was also very poor, making the delineation between the fowl line and the slippery alley difficult to see. And as an  amateur at the sport of ten pin bowling, I was clearly unaware of the dangers as well as susceptible to crossing the line in my amateurish attempts to bowl a strike and required this warning.Continue reading→

No Win No Fee Lawyers or No Win No Pay Lawyers?

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No Win No Fee Personal Injury Lawyers Gold Coast & Brisbane Explain No Win No Fee Legal Services

Personal Injury Lawyers Gold Coast & Brisbane explain no win no fee & no win no pay legal services.

Often you will hear people trying to remember the term for “no win no fee lawyers” & they will refer to “no win no pay lawyers” or “no win no bill lawyers”, or even, “no win zero fees lawyers”. It is funny to hear of some of the various terminology used & in the end, they will usually Google it !

What’s the Difference between “No Win No Fee” & “No Win No Pay”?

The most commonly used term to describe this legal service is “no win no fee”, but it can be called many things. Basically, there’s no difference between the terms, “no win no fee lawyer”, “no win no pay lawyer”, “no win no bill lawyer” or no win zero fees lawyer” etc.- they are all referring to the same type of service. They are just different ways of referring to lawyers who run legal cases and do not charge their clients until the end of their case & only if the case is successful.Continue reading→

Car Accident Lawyers – What’s the Future Hold?

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What’s in store for Gold Coast & Brisbane Car Accident Lawyers? No Win No Fee Personal Injury Lawyers tell you what experts are predicting.

No Win No Fee Personal Injury Lawyers specialise in all areas of personal injury claims, including motor accident law. For many years we’ve been achieving much deserved injury compensation for those injured in car, truck, motorcycle, bus, pedestrian & cycling accidents & we hope to be doing so well into the future. But according to motor vehicle industry experts, things are changing!

What Car Experts Are Predicting in the Next 20 Years

Experts in the automotive industry are making surprising predictions for future motoring. They are saying that the automobile as we know it & the average person driving on our roads will be a thing of the past within the next 20 years. The predictions speak of automated pods, travelling in massive trains at 100kph and controlled by major conglomerates such as Uber, Amazon, Fed Ex etc. taking the place of the motor vehicle. The average person will no longer be driving & human error will be removed from road travel everywhere, replaced by computer controlled machines programmed not to collide or crash.  In fact, they say, in 20 years time only the wealthiest of people will even be permitted to drive on roadways.Continue reading→

Secretly Recording Conversations – Is it Legal?

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Gold Coast and Brisbane No Win No Fee Personal Injury Lawyers, explain secretly recording conversations

Gold Coast and Brisbane Personal Injury Lawyers, No Win No Fee, explain the legalities of secret recordings in Qld.

No Win No Fee Personal Injury Lawyers are often met with the situation where a client has secretly recorded  conversations they want to use in support of their personal injury claim. The question then has to be asked, is that recording legal?

If All Participants to a Conversation Agree it is Always Legal to Record

Obviously if all the parties have agreed to the conversation or meeting being recorded, then there is no need to question legality. In Australia and all States, including Queensland, it is legal to record where all the parties involved are agreeable. However, what about secret recordings?

The laws that apply to secret recordings of conversations are different in each State.Continue reading→

Qld Work Injury Claims & the 5% Threshold

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Brisbane & Gold Coast No Win No Fee Personal Injury Lawyers explain recent decision impact on work injury claims in Qld.

No Win No Fee Personal Injury Lawyers explain the impact of Trumino v Coles on work injury claims. Gold Coast & Brisbane No Win No Fee Lawyers.

Good News for those Injured at Work During 15 October 2013 & 30 January 2015

If you’ve been injured at work during the period 15 October 2013 and 30 January 2015, then your work injury claim is subject to the 5% threshold. What this means is that you cannot bring a Common Law claim for your work injury unless you achieve a degree of permanent impairment(DPI) for your injury of over 5%.

No Win No Fee Personal Injury Lawyers Explain the Degree of Permanent Impairment (DPI)

What is a degree of permanent impairment or DPI ? Taking your body as 100% functioning, permanent impairment is basically the impairment or loss of function suffered because of an injury. So for example, doctors may assess you as suffering a 7% loss of bodily function because of your work injury – then your DPI is 7%.

How doctors assess permanent impairment of functioning caused by an injury is based on a special guide used to assess DPI for work injuries in Queensland, namely, GEPI (Guide to Evaluation of Permanent Impairment).  And GEPI is primarily based on the international guide for assessing permanent impairment of functioning caused by injury, the AMA Guides.Continue reading→

Trip & Falls on Footpaths

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No Win No Fee Personal Injury Lawyers Brisbane and Gold Coast explain claims for trip & falls on footpaths.

Brisbane and Gold Coast Personal Injury Lawyers explain trip & fall personal injury claims where occurring on footpaths. No Win No Fee Lawyers, servicing Brisbane, Gold Coast & all Qld.

We commonly receive claim enquiries involving injuries from trip & falls on footpaths. These claims are usually against the local Council that has responsibility for and control over these areas of public land.

Because of the vast areas of public land Councils are responsible for, Courts are normally hesitant to find against these bodies in such claims. The issue being that Council’s cannot possibly be aware of every crack in a footpath or protruding tree root, in the large areas they oversee. Courts also consider that people should take care for their own safety when walking in public areas. And typically, local Council’s strenuously defend such claims, on these very grounds.

No Win No Fee Personal Injury Lawyers Explain Trip and Fall Claims Against Local Councils

The vast majority of falls on footpaths are due to uneven paving, protruding tree roots, or hidden indentations in the ground. To be successful in a claim arising from such events, it’s necessary to show the local Council was made aware of the danger prior to your trip & fall because of complaints made to it, or it had undertaken work in the area and  therefore ought to have been aware of the hazard. For example, where the Council has undertaken maintenance of a footpath or nature strip and has failed to remove a protruding tree root, or where the Council removes a tree and doesn’t properly fill in the resultant hole.Continue reading→

Choosing the Best No Win No Fee Personal Injury Lawyers for Your Claim

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Gold Coast & Brisbane No Win No Fee Personal Injury Lawyers Explain the Best No Win No Fee Law Firm. Qld’s No Win No Pay legal service.

When you’ve been injured in an accident or in some other manner, due to the fault of another, you will want to ensure you have the best personal injury lawyers on your case.  But for most people, they believe they can’t afford the best lawyers because they just don’t have the financial means to meet the legal fees involved.  However, this is not an issue when you engage personal injury lawyers who provide a no win no fee service.

What Is a “No Win No Fee Legal Service”?

A no win no fee legal service, or no win no pay service as it is also known, is where a law firm runs a legal action on behalf of a client, and does not charge the client until the end of the action, and only if the legal action is successful.  If the legal action is not successful, then the law firm does not get paid.Continue reading→

Car Accident Lawyers Explain Accidents Involving Livestock on Highway

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Gold Coast and Brisbane Car Accident Lawyers Explain Personal Injury Claims Arising from Motor Accidents Caused by Animals on Highways. No Win No Fee Lawyers Brisbane & Gold Coast. Servicing all Qld.

If you Hit Livestock on a Qld Road the Law says you Can’t Claim Injury Compensation

In Queensland there’s a rule established by the decision in Searle v Wallbank, that if you hit, or swerve to avoid a cow, horse, pig or any other type of livestock, straying onto the roadway from a nearby farm, the owner of the animal is not liable for any injury compensation or property damage arising from the motor vehicle accident.

Searle v Wallbank is an old English Court of Appeal decision. It has in more recent times been abolished in the United Kingdom and most Australian States but not in Queensland. What the rule says is that owners and occupiers of land adjoining highways are not obligated to fence or maintain fences, hedges, gates etc. to keep their livestock from straying onto nearby highways and nor do they hold a duty to take reasonable care to prevent their animals from straying onto nearby highways, unless the animal is known to be dangerous.Continue reading→